The Bully Project: Alex
Alex is one of the featured students in the upcoming feature-length documentary, The Bully Project. It’s hard not to feel the pain of bullying after seeing this clip. Plain and simple: Kids like Alex need someone — anyone — to step up. It’s our job to teach our kids to step up. It’s our job […]
National “Get Involved in Your Child’s School” Day
Tuesday was the self-proclaimed national “Be Nice to the New Kid Day.” Hope it went well and all the new and old kids in the class felt good about themselves when they went home. Today is National “Get Involved in Your Child’s School” Day. Once again, it’s a fairly recent holiday. I made it up […]
National Be Nice to the New Kid Day
Public schools in the northeast start back to school today. Now that almost everyone in the country has started a new school year, it’s a good time to celebrate the National Be Nice to the New Kid Day. Of course, this is not an official holiday. I just made it up… but why not? If […]
Bullying: Not Good For Grades
Students who are bullied regularly do substantially worse in school, UCLA psychologists report in a special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence devoted to academic performance and peer relationships. Who does their best work when they’re unhappy? Once again, we shouldn’t need a study to validate this fact but happy there is one. Thanks […]
Bullying and the Secret Weapon: Parents
Last week, Florida State University (Go, Seminoles!) came out with a study that basically said (drum roll) that “authoritative” parents were the key to kids not being severely impacted by bullying. The trial involved 426 adolescents, with 15 of them suffering various degrees of bullying. Researchers discovered that the main difference was from styles of […]
Bullying: Parents Need to Help Their Little Cupcakes
There are great experts doing fantastic work to help prevent bullying in schools. But from what I see, home is where it’s at. Most parents can’t control everything that happens in school and not all schools are able to handle the many subtle and not so subtle bullying episodes. So what can a parent do? […]
Bullying: Demi Lovato is an UPSTANDER!
Demi Lovato hearts Kelly Clarkson, and Bill O'Reilly hearts Demi Lovato (Click on link above and scroll to short 2nd video to see Demi’s advice to kids about bullying.) Good girl, Demi. You haven’t backed down from your message. A couple of years ago when you were really young, you were public about the bullying […]
Bullying Prevention: I Can See Every Single Kind of Possibility
Re: Michael Buble’s “I Just Haven’t Met You Yet” video: this actually happened to me in a grocery store once. No kidding. The band, the confetti, the whole thing. Seriously, though, the line in the song “I can see every single kind of possibility” is so great, so happy, so hopeful. Good sentiments for a […]
Bullying: 86,400 Seconds In A Day To Do Something About It
In the 86,400 seconds that make up a day, 60 seconds of it could be used to help a child or a co-worker in pain from bullying abuse. What can be done in 60 seconds? • eye contact • listening • a few kind sentences • telling the knucklehead that’s doing it to stop • […]
The Bully Project
The Bully Project Promo from Lee Hirsch on Vimeo. The goal of The Bully Project is to raise awareness about the devastating affects of peer to peer abuse and then do something about it. It can’t be finished soon enough. One of the challenges of this tangled ball of a mess called bullying is engaging […]
